Assembly Bill A1774

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Provides for payments to licensed harness tracks by regional off-track betting corporations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A1774 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Racing And Wagering
Law Section:
Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1016 & 1017, RWB L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6916
2011-2012: A3647
2013-2014: A3333
2015-2016: A918
2017-2018: A1819
2019-2020: A4051
2023-2024: A4746

2021-A1774 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for payments to licensed harness tracks by regional off-track betting corporations.

2021-A1774 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1774
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Racing and Wagering
 
 AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and  breeding  law,  in
   relation  to  payments  by  off-track betting corporations to regional
   licensed harness tracks

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Clause (E) of subparagraph 5 of paragraph b of subdivision
 1 of section 1016 of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding  law,
 as amended by chapter 18 of the laws of 2008 and item (ii) as amended by
 chapter 243 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
   (E) [On] DURING THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED TWENTY days IN ANY CALENDAR YEAR
 when a franchised corporation is not conducting a race meeting [and when
 a  licensed harness track is neither accepting wagers nor displaying the
 signal from an in-state thoroughbred corporation or  association  or  an
 out-of-state thoroughbred track]:
   (i)  [Such] A licensed regional harness track shall receive in lieu of
 any other payments on wagers  placed  at  off-track  betting  facilities
 outside  the  special betting district on races conducted by an in-state
 thoroughbred racing corporation, two and eight-tenths percent on regular
 and multiple bets during a regional  meeting  and  one  and  nine-tenths
 percent of such bets if there is no regional meeting and four and eight-
 tenths percent on exotic bets on days on which there is a regional meet-
 ing  and  three  and  four-tenths  percent  of  such bets if there is no
 regional meeting.
   (ii) [Such] A licensed regional harness track shall receive  [one  and
 one-half]  THREE-QUARTERS  OF  ONE  percent  on total regional handle on
 races conducted at out-of-state or out-of-country thoroughbred tracks.
   (iii) In those regions in  which  there  is  more  than  one  licensed
 regional  harness  track, [if no track is accepting wagers or displaying
 the live simulcast signal from the out-of-state track,]  the  total  sum
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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